干白素21及其受体参与NK细胞扩张和淋巴细胞功能调节
J Parrish-Novak1, S R Dillon, A Nelson
1Department of Functional Cloning, ZymoGenetics, Inc., Seattle, Washington 98102, USA.
Nature
|November 18, 2000
概括
研究人员发现了Interleukin-21 (IL21),这是一种对免疫细胞发育至关重要的新型细胞因子. IL21及其受体 (IL21 R) 在自然杀手,B细胞和T细胞的增殖和成熟中发挥作用,影响免疫反应.
科学领域:
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 细胞因子调节血液形成和免疫反应,影响淋巴细胞的发育.
- 确定了一种新型的I类细胞因子受体,在淋巴细胞组织中选择性表达.
- 这种受体能够进行信号传导,从而实现功能性检测.
研究的目的:
- 识别和表征一种新型细胞因子及其对应的受体,参与免疫调节.
- 为了建立一个功能测试,用于连接体检测和克隆细胞因子.
- 阐明新型细胞因子在淋巴细胞增殖和成熟中的作用.
主要方法:
- 在BaF3细胞中表达全长的I类细胞因子受体,以创建功能性检测.
- 使用来自激活的人类CD3+T细胞的条件介质来支持测试细胞系的增殖.
- 从激活的人类CD3+T细胞构建一个互补的DNA表达库,用于功能性克隆.
- 在体外测试以评估已识别的细胞因子对各种免疫细胞种群的影响.
主要成果:
- 鉴定了一种新型细胞因子,被指定为Interleukin-21 (IL21),具有四螺旋环捆结构.
- 对应受体的识别,被指定为IL21受体 (IL21 R).
- IL21在自然杀手 (NK) 细胞的增殖和成熟中发挥了作用.
- IL21支持成熟的B细胞 (与抗CD40联合刺激) 和T细胞 (与抗CD3联合刺激) 的增殖.
结论:
- 一种新的细胞因子IL21及其受体IL21R已被确定,扩大了对细胞因子信号传递的理解.
- IL21与关键免疫细胞类型的增殖和成熟有关,包括NK,B和T细胞.
- 发现IL21和IL21R为调节免疫反应和理解血液形成提供了新的点.
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